Why was Lincoln's Gettysburg address so important?

Answer 1

The Gettysburg Address was brilliantly written and perfectly concise. It captured the positive spirit of the people of the United States and helped encourage them to support the war for its last 18 months.

Newspapers were quite critical of the Gettysburg Address, calling it meaningless, an insult to the listeners, and many other demeaning things. The people, however, responded to the speech when it was printed in those same papers.

The listeners at the time were stunned by the shortness of the speech. The keynote speaker droned on for a couple of hours. No one remembers a word he said. Lincoln spoke two minutes and millions can recall every word.

Answer 2

It wasn't necessary as in required, but Lincoln wanted to speak to the public at a dedication of the cemetery of the place where the very bloody battle of Gettysburg was fought. The Union had won, and Lincoln said a 2 minute speech that was incredible and would be remembered for generations. many people at the time thought the speech was silly, but it was later considered a very good oratory. Everyone's heard at least a little of it "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation... dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Answer 3

because it brought the union and the confederacy (well some of them) together